As I mentioned earlier, Apple hasn’t sent the shipping version of Leopard to third-party developers yet. This means that although most of them have a pretty good idea of how their apps will work in Leopard, it’s difficult for some of them to be 100% sure. Will Leopard introduce small glitches here and there? Probably. [...]
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Leopard and Third-Party Apps
Steven Frank of Panic (the folks who make CandyBar, Coda, Desktastic, Stattoo, Transmit, and Unison) has written about why third-party developers don’t necessarily know if their apps will have any glitches in Leopard: It increasingly looks like we won’t be getting access to the final build of Leopard until the same day our customers do. [...]
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Look Before You Leap Into Leopard
If your school uses a Mac-native exam software package (see here for a rundown on exam software and a listing of what some schools use), you should check with the IT department to be sure they’ll support Leopard for upcoming exams. If you’re at a SofTest school that allows use of Boot Camp for exams, [...]
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Leopard for Law Students
Mac OS X 10.5 (aka “Leopard”) is due some time this month. If earlier precedent holds, the OS upgrade will cost students $69. While there are dozens of new features in Leopard, here are the ones that jump out at me as being of interest to law students: Preview will have improved PDF annotation and [...]
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There’s Marketshare, Then There’s Marketshare
This discussion thread at Ars Technica made me think about how in spite of the global nature of the personal computer market, a person’s physical environment can affect how they perceive the viability of Macintosh as a platform. I’ve operated in companies dominated by Macs. But I also worked in one outfit where the Mac [...]
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